This is a great article by Sashko Stubailo, a core developer at Meteor, about the way data flows in a Meteor application. I highly recommend reading this as it can give you more insight on how Meteor works or if you are a beginner, it can give you a jumpstart on understanding the platform.

There are some new Blaze features coming soon and they need to be tested. In this preview release, it contains the {{#eachxiny}} syntax, {{#letx=some.other.var}} and @index exposed in each.
So, for those of you interested in testing this out, run meteor --release EACH-IN@0.0.3 update and report your findings here

This is HUGE! MDG has been working very hard on Windows support and it is now feature complete. That means it is time for more people to come in on testing it out and giving feedback and once those bugs are ironed out… we’ll see it released in Meteor 1.1 ;-)

This is exciting. It turns out that MDG is working on supporting ES6 with the Babel transpiler in an official package. For those of you more interested, read the commit notes and check out the branch itself.

Updates in the Meteor Community

Gerard Sychay from Differential does a great talk on integrating React with Meteor and various methods of doing so. He explored various packages for react integration and has some great insights. This was the first recorded meetup in Cincinnati, so the video has some bugs in it.

This is a great experiment and tutorial on building a Yik Yak clone in Meteor. He goes through how to do it from start to finish with intermediate steps explaining problems that came about and the code and packages needed to fix those problems. It’s a really great read.

Lookback is one of the biggest Meteor apps in production right now and has rebranded and redesigned their website. They have also released a bunch of awesome packages that can help other Meteor developers out.

This is an awesome PoC (Proof of Concept) of a Meteor app running on the Moto 360 watch. The developer stated that since it is running on Chromium, it is a very big resource hog and will drain battery quickly.

This is an awesome template that uses the Differential boilerplate and combines it with the free and open source Admin LTE template. You can use this theme to start building a nice admin site for your company!

This is a great article by Adrien Griveau about how Meteor applications communicate with eachother and how it differs from the class HTTP GET / POST way of communication. It gives a lot of insight on how Meteor and more specifically DDP can really change the way you think about developing applications.

This is an article by the MeteorHacks team about their new package, Flow Router, and how the new template level subscriptions can affect the way you develop your Meteor applications. It gives insight on where it would be appropriate to use template level subscriptions vs router level subscriptions and small use cases for both.

This npm package created by Q42 allows you to easily expose your data through DDP and it doesn’t interfere with your HTTP server already running. So, you can add a DDP-based API to your Node application! I love this because it allows nodejs apps to become more Meteor friendly and it also helps spread DDP.